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Accounting is an Evolved Economic Institution
Gregory B. Waymire, Sudipto Basu
Now Publishers Inc, 2008
Accounting is an Evolved Economic Institution starts by defining "accounting history research" and posing six big picture questions about historical accounting evolution. The book summarizes accounting history over the past ten thousand years -- this literature review provides useful examples for subsequent sections and can be used as a primer of accounting history. The authors explain how accounting history can inform scholars studying modern ...
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Accounting Disclosure and Real Effects (Foundations and Trends(R) in Accounting)
Chandra Kanodia
Now Publishers Inc, 2007
Accounting Disclosure and Real Effects presents a new approach to the study of accounting measurement and disclosure that challenges the existing accounting literature. This new approach - the "real effects" perspective - argues that how firms' economic transactions, earnings, and capital flows are measured and reported to the capital markets has substantial effects on the firms' real decisions and on the allocation of resources in the economy ...
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The Application of Hidden Markov Models in Speech Recognition
Mark Gales, Steve Young
Now Publishers Inc, 2008
Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) provide a simple and effective framework for modelling time-varying spectral vector sequences. As a consequence, almost all present day large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) systems are based on HMMs. Whereas the basic principles underlying HMM-based LVCSR are rather straightforward, the approximations and simplifying assumptions involved in a direct implementation of these principles would result in ...
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Adaptive Query Processing (Foundations and Trends(R) in Databases)
Amol Deshpande, Zachary Ives, ...
Now Publishers Inc, 2007
Adaptive Query Processing surveys the fundamental issues, techniques, costs, and benefits of adaptive query processing. It begins with a broad overview of the field, identifying the dimensions of adaptive techniques. It then looks at the spectrum of approaches available to adapt query execution at runtime - primarily in a non-streaming context. The emphasis is on simplifying and abstracting the key concepts of each technique, rather than ...
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Algebraic Number Theory and Code Design for Rayleigh Fading Channels (Foundations and Trends in ...
F Oggier, E Viterbo
Now Publishers Inc, 2004
Algebraic number theory is gaining an increasing impact in code design for many different coding applications, such as single antenna fading channels and more recently, MIMO systems. Extended work has been done on single antenna fading channels, and algebraic lattice codes have been proven to be an effective tool. The general framework has been developed in the last ten years and many explicit code constructions based on algebraic number ...
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Random Matrix Theory and Wireless Communications (Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information ... 1 review
A, M Tulino, S Verdu
Now Publishers Inc, 2004
A must read for wireless communications researchers
This short book explains the key results about random matrices and their relevance to wireless communications. Every serious researcher in that field should read that book.
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Algorithms and Data Structures for External Memory
Jeffrey Scott Vitter
Now Publishers Inc, 2008
Data sets in large applications are often too massive to fit completely inside the computer's internal memory. The resulting input/output communication (or I/O) between fast internal memory and slower external memory (such as disks) can be a major performance bottleneck. Algorithms and Data Structures for External Memory surveys the state of the art in the design and analysis of external memory (or EM) algorithms and data structures, where the ...
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ALGORITHMIC RESULTS IN LIST DECODING (Foundations and Trends(R) in Theoretical Computer Science)
Venkatesan Guruswami
Now Publishers Inc, 2007
Algorithmic Results in List Decoding introduces and motivates the problem of list decoding, and discusses the central algorithmic results of the subject, culminating with the recent results on achieving "list decoding capacity." The main technical focus is on giving a complete presentation of the recent algebraic results achieving list decoding capacity, while pointers or brief descriptions are provided for other works on list decoding. ...
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Social Capital and Entrepreneurship (Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship)1 review
Phillip H. Kim, Howard Aldrich
Now Publishers Inc, 2005
Great Overview of Networks for Entrepreneurs
Phil Kim and Howard Aldrich have written a brief, accessible summary of several key implications of the social network research for entrepreneurs.
It is very clear and well-referenced, and good food for thought for academics as well as entrepreneurs.
We may be able to use it in our executive education classes for public managers.
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Capital Mobility and Tax Competition (Foundations and Trends(R) in Microeconomics)
Clemens Fuest, Bernd Huber, ...
Now Publishers Inc, 2005
Tax competition and coordination is one of the most pressing issues for tax authorities in modern economies, but it is a highly controversial subject. Some argue that tax competition is beneficial by forcing governments to impose efficient tax prices on residents for the provision of public services. Further, some argue that tax competition is also beneficial by limiting the power of governments to levy taxes. Others take a different view - in a ...
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Business Creation in the United States
Paul D Reynolds, Richard T Curtin
Now Publishers Inc, 2008
Business Creation in the United States presents the results of The Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics [PSED] II and is the only nationally representative dataset of new business creation providing a critical source of information on the early stages of the entrepreneurial process. It is designed to provide an overview which can form the basis for exploring more issues relevant to specific theories or conceptual frameworks.
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Authorship Attribution
Patrick Juola
Now Publishers Inc, 2008
Authorship attribution, the science of inferring characteristics of the author from the characteristics of documents written by that author, is a problem with a long history and a wide range of application. It is an important problem not only in information retrieval but in many other disciplines as well, from technology to teaching and from finance to forensics. The idea that authors have a statistical "fingerprint'' that can be detected by ...
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Brand Attachment: Construct, Consequences and Causes
C. Whan Park, Deborah J. MacInnis, ...
Now Publishers Inc, 2008
Brand Attachment provides a theoretical construct about the factors that underlie strong brand relationships. The authors define the construct of brand attachment and differentiate it from other constructs arguing that brand attachment is critical to outcome variables that underscore the brand's value to the firm. This monograph adds to the literature by articulating the antecedents to strong brand attachments including both the bases on which ...
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Behavioral Operations Management (Foundations and Trends(R) in Technology, Information and Operations Mana)
Christoph H Loch, Yaozhong Wu
Now Publishers Inc, 2007
Behavioral Operations Management introduces the understanding of human behavior to the practice of operations management. It provides a set of methods and a structured area of study to analyze behavioral issues within the OM paradigm.
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Architecture of a Database System (Foundations and Trends(R) in Databases)
Joseph, M Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker, ...
Now Publishers Inc, 2007
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are a ubiquitous and critical component of modern computing, and the result of decades of research and development in both academia and industry. Architecture of a Database System presents an architectural discussion of DBMS design principles, including process models, parallel architecture, storage system design, transaction system implementation, query processor and optimizer architectures, and typical ...
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Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets (Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics)
Martin Gaynor
Now Publishers Inc, 2007
Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets provides an economic assessment of the impact of competition on quality in health care markets. This book is especially relevant for antitrust policy in countries where there are well established health care markets like the United States and can be used to evaluate market oriented reforms in Europe and elsewhere. Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets offers ? performance standards ...
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Choice Models in Marketing
Sandeep R. Chandukala, Jaehwan Kim, ...
Now Publishers Inc, 2008
Choice Models in Marketing examines recent developments in the modeling of choice for marketing and reviews a large stream of research currently being developed by both quantitative and qualitative researches in marketing. Choice in marketing differs from other domains in that the choice context is typically very complex, and researchers' desire knowledge of the variables that ultimately lead to demand in marketplace. The marketing choice ...
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Channel Coding in the Presence of Side Information
Guy Keshet, Yossef Steinberg, ...
Now Publishers Inc, 2008
Channel Coding in the Presence of Side Information reviews the concepts and methods of communication systems equipped with side information both from the theoretical and practical points of view. These channels have been widely studied over the years and can serve as models in a wide range of problems, depending on some assumptions regarding the channel state and on the availability and quality (clean or noisy) of the side information at the ...
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Average-Case Complexity (Foundations and Trends(R) in Theoretical Computer Science)
Andrej Bogdanov, Luca Trevisan
Now Publishers Inc, 2006
Average-Case Complexity is a thorough survey of the average-case complexity of problems in NP. The study of the average-case complexity of intractable problems began in the 1970s, motivated by two distinct applications: the developments of the foundations of cryptography and the search for methods to "cope" with the intractability of NP-hard problems. This survey looks at both, and generally examines the current state of knowledge on ...
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